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Lithium-Induced Paranoid Hallucinatory State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. H. Kamlana*
Affiliation:
West Cumberland Hospital, Hensingham, Whitehaven, Cumbria
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Abstract

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Correspondence
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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